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Civil Engineering and GSAPP Host Conference with International Line-up of Speakers

09/23/2008

The Department of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, in conjunction with the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP), is presenting the second of a multi-year series of conferences on architecture, engineering and materials. The conference, Solid States: Changing Time for Concrete, will feature more than 30 internationally known speakers at the three-day conference, from October 1 to 3 in Avery Hall’s Wood Auditorium. The conference is organized by GSAPP and chaired by Michael Bell, Associate Professor of Architecture.

“Concrete, by far the world’s most important building material, has entered a new era of development,” says Christian Meyer, professor and chair of the SEAS Department of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics. “This conference brings together leading architects and engineers to explore the boundaries between materials science, engineering and design in the context of known and new materials in an era of rapid urbanization. As researchers, one of the purposes of sponsoring this conference is to inform the architectural community of the exciting developments that have taken place during the last several years and what new tools are being provided to them to change our built environment.”

This conference is a sequel to last year’s highly successful conference, Engineered Transparency – Glass in Architecture and Structural Engineering, which brought together well-known architects and engineers as panelists to discuss the recent developments in science, technology, and engineering of structural glass, and was attended by more than 400 architects, engineers and building professionals.